Today we finished our long awaited ‘bulk tagging’ application. I’d encourage you to give it a go and send us some feedback. We are particularly interested in museum professionals and amateur collecting organisations adding tags in volume to our collection. The application currently targets the user tagging of objects in our collection that have not [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Folksonomies'
A reminder about user incentives
June 27th, 2007 1 Comment
Since Friday at UK Museums and the Web 2007 I keep being asked about my scepticism over explicit tagging in museums. “Why do I think that users don’t really have much natural incentive to tag our collections or content?” Over at Bokardo there is a post dating back to 2006 which looks at why Del.icio.us [...]
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A reminder about ‘participation inequality’
June 8th, 2007 Comments Off
I’m busy preparing a couple of new and remixed presentations for delivery in the northern hemisphere in the next few weeks and Tony Walker over at the ABC reminded me about this excellent summary of Participation Inequality by usability evangelist Jakob Nielsen. How to Overcome Participation Inequality You can’t. The first step to dealing with [...]
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M&W07 – Day two: Tagging & Tracking / OPAC2.2
April 13th, 2007 Comments Off
Thanks to all who came to my paper presentation. The paper is online over at Archimuse or if you are attending it is also in the printed proceedings (which is a little easier to read on public transport). You can also download my slides but bear in mind they need to be viewed in conjunction [...]
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Pew Research on tagging
February 6th, 2007 Comments Off
Pew Research Center: Tagging Play is a short report looking at who tags content on sites like Flickr, YouTube, Del.Icio.Us and the others. I’d strongly recommend reading the brief report. There are some basic demographics in the report and short piece on what tagging means. A December 2006 survey by the Pew Internet & American [...]
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OPAC2.0 – Multiple images and new acquisitions added
December 28th, 2006 Comments Off
A couple of minor new things to report on our collection database. A few minor additions to our collection database have been implemented today. These have been on the ‘to-do’ list for a long time! Multiple images Ever since OPAC2.0 launched we have been hiding multiple images of objects. Now they are all publicly accessible [...]
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OPAC2.0 – Search term frequency and the influence of interface
November 19th, 2006 Comments Off
I’ve started preparing some work on search term frequency in our collection database. The system is set up to track only successful searches – which we define as those that result in a user selecting an item from the search results. Taking figures generated last week, the database has served up over 1.87 million successful [...]
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Rich serendipity and Vander Wal
October 24th, 2006 Comments Off
Jonathan at the AGNSW pointed me towards this rather excellent piece on folksonomies which really resonates with our own experiences with our collection database. What Vander Wal realized is that socially exposed tagging for personal use introduces another organizing agent that compensates for the ambiguity of its vocabulary with high-value serendipity: people. We are much [...]
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Synonymiser Beta – proof of concept
October 23rd, 2006 2 Comments
Synonymiser is an experimental micro-application that returns related words from search data relationships held in the Powerhouse Museum’s collection database. These ‘synonyms’ are dynamically generated from realtime user interaction with the collection database. On the Synonymiser site you can enter any search word or phrase and it will return a list of ‘related’ words or [...]
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